Pollard can't buy a slice of iced lemon pound cake from his local neighborhood Starbucks without recording, at the very least, a limited-edition etched vinyl 10" EP in the process. So it probably won't shock anyone to learn that a couple of Pollard projects will release new full-lengths before the summer solstice.

First up: Gringo, the newest album from Circus Devils, the band Pollard shares with former Guided By Voices members Todd and Tim Tobias. Ataxia, the last Circus Devils album, came out in November of last year, and Happy Jack Rock will release Gringo on April 14. That's a five-month turnaround! Not bad!

Todd and Tim Tobias are responsible all the music on Gringo, and Pollard sings and writes lyrics. Here's the cover, which naturally enough also comes from Pollard:

Then, on June 9, Happy Jack Rock will also release Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks, the debut of Cosmos, another Pollard project. Cosmos is Pollard's Marvel Comics Team-up with psych-pop auteur Richard Davies, the former frontman of the Moles and Cardinal. The two will split lead vocals. Here's the cover:

According to this Magnet article, Pollard also plans to release one more solo album and one more Boston Spaceships album this year. And as we reported last year, Pollard may be writing the songs for Cleo, a 3D rock opera musical about the life of Cleopatra from the similarly prolific filmmaker Stephen Soderbergh. Former Guided By Voices bassist Jim Greer wrote the script, but it's one of five movies listed as being in some stage of development on Soderbergh'sIMDB page, so who even knows.